the powers, rights, duties, liabilities and obligations in relation to those acts exerciseable by or attaching to the council, incorporated commissioners, local board, improvement commissioners, and other commissioners or persons acting in the execution of the acts.

Where the Baths and Washhouses Acts are not in force within the district of an urban sanitary authority, such authority may adopt them, and where the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Acts are not in force within the district, the authority may adopt them also (c).

By "Local Government Acts" are meant-11 & 12 Vict. c. 63; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 98; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 61; 26 Vict. c. 17, and any enactments

amending the same.

By "Sewage Utilization Acts" are here meant -28 & 29 Vict. c. 75; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 113; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 115 ; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 100; 33 & 34 Vict. c. 53.

By "Nuisances Removal Acts" are here meant -18 & 19 Vict. c. 121; 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 117; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 41; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90.

By "Common Lodging Houses Acts”— 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28; 16 & 17 Vict. c. 41.

(c) 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79, s. 7.

By "Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act" -31 & 32 Vict. c. 130.

By "Bakehouse Regulation Act"-26 & 27 Vict. c. 40.

By "Baths and Washhouses Acts"-9 & 10 Vict. c. 74; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 61.

By "Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Acts" -14 & 15 Vict. c. 34; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 28; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 28.

Also by "Sanitary Acts" all the above acts, and "The Diseases Prevention Act," 18 & 19 Vict. c. 116, amended by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77, ss. 10, 12.

"The Public Health Act, 1872"-35 & 36 Vict. c. 79.

"The Sanitary Laws Amendment Act, 1874" -37 & 38 Vict. c. 89.

All powers given by the Sewage Utilization Act, 1865; the Sanitary Act, 1866; the Sewage Utilization Act, 1867; the Sanitary Act, 1868; the Public Health Act, 1872, and the Sanitary Laws Amendment Act, 1874, are deemed to be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers conferred by act of parliament, law or custom, and such other powers may be exercised as if such acts had not passed (d).

(d) 28 & 29 Vict. c. 75, s. 13; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90, s. 55; 30

From the first meeting of the council, all such property, real and personal, including all interest, easements and rights in and to property (including things in action), as belongs to, or would, but for the Public Health Act, 1872, have belonged to any authority whose powers, rights, duties, liabilities and obligations are transferred to the council, have, so far as the property is applicable to the purposes of their powers, rights, duties, liabilities or obligations passed to the council, subject to all liabilities and obligations affecting the property transferred.

Liabilities and obligations incurred in respect of property thus transferred may be enforced against the council to the extent, and in the manner they might have been enforced against the authority from which the transfer has taken place. This last authority is deemed discharged from these liabilities and obligations.

Property thus transferred to the council must be held by them upon trust for the district, or several parishes or places within their jurisdiction to which it belonged, or for the benefit of which it was held previously to its transfer (e).

Upon the application of an authority from

& 31 Vict. c. 113, s. 19; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 115, s. 9; 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79, s. 59.

(e) 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79, s. 9.

whom, or to whom, powers, rights, duties, liabilities, obligations and property, or any of them, are thus transferred, or alleged to be transferred, or of any person affected by the transfer, the local government board may, by order, settle any doubt or difference, and adjust any accounts arising out of these powers, &c., or the transfer of them. They may direct the parties by whom, and to whom, money found to be due is to be paid, and the mode of raising the money.

Any provisions contained in an order so made are deemed within the powers thus conferred, subject to this proviso, that where the order directs a rate to be made, or anything to be done, which the party required to do it would not, apart from the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1872, have been enabled to do by law, the order is provisional only until it has been confirmed by parliament (f).

Doubts having arisen as to the extent and meaning of the seventh section of the Public Health Act, 1872, it is enacted, that the provisions of the said section shall be deemed to have applied to every authority acting at the time of the passing of that act under the powers conferred upon them by a local act with respect to any sani

(f) 35 & 36 Vict, c. 79, s. 39.

-tary purposes, and that all the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities, and obligations of any authority having jurisdiction under a local act in the district of an urban sanitary authority at the time of the passing of the Public Health Act, 1872, so far as they or any of them related to such purposes, were transferred to and became attached to the urban sanitary authority therein referred to.

Where any body of turnpike trustees have powers for any such sanitary purposes as aforesaid under a local act, such trustees shall not be deemed to be an urban sanitary authority, but all their powers and obligations under such acts for such purposes shall be transferred to the council within whose borough the area to which the local act applies shall be locally contained.

All acts, matters, rates, orders, or other things heretofore done, performed, assessed, or made by any authority under any local act, or commenced and not completed by October, 1874, shall be legal, if not otherwise invalid.

It is also enacted, that the transfer of property provided for in section nine of the Public Health Act, 1872, applies to the property of the authority acting under the powers conferred upon them by a local act for sanitary purposes, so far as such property is held for such purposes.